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Slightly O/T , but i've noticed it more these days

Was it sixth sense or years of experience kicking in something ---i don't know. But it's not the first time i've seen it - seems to happen too often nowadays for my liking.

The old roundabout scenario - indicate right , till just after the exit before the one you are taking, then indicate left.

New take on this - indicate right - get on roundabout , then indicate left and carry on . I got suspicious - don't know why(perhaps it was his lane disipline), but slowed right down on the approach, to find him passing in front of me to take next exit, not getting off to my right. I had clocked him and his left indicator , but something made me slow right down ---to get ready for hard braking, if he's telling porkies.

This is not first of this and every one in MK - land of the roundabout.

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Funny you should mention MK, I had that happen to me just outside St Alberns (sp) when I was on my bike training.

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I experience no indicating on roundabouts quite often, I wish people would exert that little bit of energy and hit the indicator, it would speed up things at roundabouts so much...

I've also recently experienced quite a few people pulling out at me on roundabouts. It was a bus last weekend, and this weekend I had a young girl pull out on a roundabout in front of me... The girl was easier to spot, it was a more open roundabout, but she had stopped, and I saw her as I entered the roundabout (not indicating as I was going straight on/taking second exit), and I assumed something wasn't quite right as she started moving again... That sort of set off a wee alarm bell in my head saying something's wrong, maybe I should hit the brakes, and my instincts were right She pulled out in front, accelerating very slowly... I noticed she had R plates up, and I just let her go on, putting it down to her inexperience... I think it might be something to do with the small car or something, people don't think you'll be going at any speed...

On this occasion I didn't indicate my exit from the roundabout, I was too busy with changing gear to get away from the roundabout as soon as possible, and my instructor told me that if there is a situation when you need to change gear and indicate at the same time, it's better to change gear and forget the indicator, but I still felt a bit bad...

What about a time like that, would it be permissable to not indicate?

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Mike

Quite honestly - i prefer no indications to the get on roundabout , then turn on left indicator and let the rest of the world guess.Especialy when they drive on the outer lane and give every indication of going off before you.

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lets bring sanity back to speed limits.
Drivers are like donkeys -they respond best to a carrot, not a stick .Road safety experts are like Asses - best kept covered up ,or sat on

is it just me or are there a lot of people using the inside lane to go all the way round a roundabout to the last exit (usually with a near miss as they pass every other exit).........keeps you alert anyway

I think its fair to say in general people have no idea how to use roundabouts properly. I see a particularly interesting phenomenon here in Swindon - I would estimate that a good 40% of our roundabouts have lane markings indicating which direction traffic must travel from a particilar lane. Some of these markings contradict correct practice. As a result we have one of two occurrences: Either 1) people don't bother to indicate because 'the lane tells other traffic where I'm going, right?' or, more worrying, when faced with an unmarked roundabout, people just have no idea how to deal with it.

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Science won over religion when they started installing lightning rods on churches.

I hate roundabouts with lanes painted on them. The lines push you to change lanes at unnatural times and take what I would consider to be incorrect lines through roundabouts. You spend all your time looking to see if you are in the indicated lane and not looking at the traffic.

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Malcolm W.
The views expressed in this post are personal opinions and do not represent the views of Safespeed.

This one entered diagonally opposite ,kept in the outer lane with left indicator on, but have also noticed similar in inside lane- dyslexic indicator syndrome perhaps.

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lets bring sanity back to speed limits.
Drivers are like donkeys -they respond best to a carrot, not a stick .Road safety experts are like Asses - best kept covered up ,or sat on